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Issue: # 200823 October 15, 2008
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
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Syracuse High School is participating in the Come Home Safe project during Homecoming
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Nationwide, the news is that more Americans are buckling up than ever before, Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters said Sept. 17. In 2008, 83 percent of all vehicle occupants are using seat belts during daylight hours--up from 82 percent in 2007 according to NHTSA. "We have seen seat belt use rising steadily every year and that means more and more lives are being saved and coutless serious injuries prevented."  said Peters.  NHTSA estimates approximately 270 lives are saved for every one percent increase in belt use.
 
However, Nebraska still has room for improvement.  Our last state report showed an average use of 78%.  However, our informal Come Home Safe reports are coming in anywhere from 20% to 75%!  So Nebraska teens at least, need to improve their buckling behavior.

Syracuse High School is participating in the Come Home Safe project during Homecoming
 
Syracuse period 3Syracuse Consumer Car Classes emphasize safety belts for the whole school.  Period 3 and Period 8  each install some parking lot signs. Syracuse High School is participating in Come Home Safe, and will be doing parking lot checks to see if vehicle occupants are buckled.
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National Teen Driver Safety Week is the week of October 19-25.   
 
The silver lake 3Come Home Safe Project addresses getting teen drivers buckled up.  
 
 
The "Click It Chronicle," our Click It Campaign e-letter, published whenever there is news, is available to all those interested in increasing safety belt usage.  Please share this information freely. Take the information, copy to friends, businesses and organizations with the same concerns.  Using the information provided will help reduce the needless fatalities and injuries on our highways and the associated costs. To subscribe to this e-letter, join the coalition, or be removed from the list, contact the Click It Team at cidri@safenebraska.org.